Quotes About Listening

Listening is more than just being quiet for a moment. It's not just the pause we were talking about earlier. Listening includes paying attention to the whole person, and especially their emotions.

Listening requires attending to the other person's heart.

Even a fool when he holds his peace is considered wise; when he closes his lips he is esteemed a man of understanding" (Proverbs 17:28). Yes, sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all. We

Listening includes paying attention to the whole person, and especially their emotions. When we really listen, we give careful attention not just to the words a person says but also to the feelings he or she is trying to communicate. Listening requires attending to the other person's heart.

Hearing a heart drop is an art we must lovingly cultivate. It can lead to the most wonderful times of encouragement as we make it our habit to listen and to love.

Jack,would you mind giving us some privacy? Jack looked Dougal up and down. Are you going to berate him? No. Chastise him? No. Kick him out of the house? No. Then I don't mind leaving. Jack turned a bland gaze to Dougal. Be careful of listening at keyholes, old man. Some of these locks are rather rusty; you could cut yourself.

One should never ask a man questions about his personal life. He just might answer and then you, my dear, would have to listen.

Men never understand that all a woman truly wants is a man who will listen.Understand.Pay her bills.And,of course,love her madly even when her hips wide due to an unfortunate addiction to bon bons. - Lady Jersey to Mrs.Cowper,as the two watched dancers waltz at Almack's.

It was always her failure for not being able to talk to us, never ours for not being able to understand her.

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.

Sam really knew how to handle people, I thought in admiration. He was so self-assured, confident and articulate, but he always listened to what I had to say as if it was the most interesting thing in the world and never spoke down to me. He made me feel important. Or was he simply saying what I wanted to hear like he did with Spencer?

So much talking makes it hard to listen.

conversations, and not

Any cop would tell you that the best way to get someone to talk was to be quiet. There was a natural, human inclination to fill silence with noise.

But—we must ask today—why then did no one listen to Overbeck?

Argue as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong.

Government hears only its own voice … It knows it hears only its own voice and yet it deceives itself that it hears the people's voice.

Normally you can't hear your own voice cos you're talking over it

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*